Re: statfs() / statvfs() syscall ballsup...

[Linus Torvalds]

On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> 
> Question: how we're supposed to reconcile the two cases for something
> like NFS, where these 2 values are supposed to differ?

I'd suggest going for "optimal block size everywhere".

> Note that f_bsize is usually larger than f_frsize, hence conversions
> from the former to the latter are subject to rounding errors...

User space shouldn't know or care about frsize, and it doesn't even 
necessarily make any sense on a lot of filesystems, so make it easy for 
the user. It's not as if the rounding errors really matter.

		Linus

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